Question

On some pages of my TWiki the following happens. When I hover with my mouse cursor over a link, the line on which the link is displayed as well as the line directly above suddenly indent a little. When I relocate the cursor the lines stay indented. Why does this happen and how can I fix it?

Here is an example. Try the links in the remarks ("Opmerkingen" is Dutch for remarks; the page is in Dutch.)

Environment

-- RinkeColen - 22 Apr 2008

Answer

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This is a known issue with the way IE6 handles blockindent. You'll also find that if you use a large number of blockindents on a page, each time blockindent is closed the text creeps a bit to the left.

There is a workaround - eliminate the indent that creates the vertical bar on the left side of the block indent from the CSS. A google search for ie6 jumping text or shifting text finds lots of references.

I can't remember what I changed to fix it - it was some months ago. I'll try to check tomorrow and will post if i can find anything

-- GeorgeClark - 25 Apr 2008

'bump' to keep it active: I'm seeing this problem too.

-- SeanCMorgan - 12 May 2008

Sorry for the delay. I found the change I made to my style sheet that resolves this issue:

--- /usr/share/webapps/twiki/4.1.2/htdocs/pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/style.css       2007-08-05 19:45:29.000000000 -0400
+++ style.css   2007-11-28 13:40:26.000000000 -0500
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
 }
 blockquote {
        border-style:solid;
-       border-width:0 0 0 3px;
+       border-width:0 0 0 0;
        padding:.5em 1.25em;
 }

This should resolve the jumping text and the creeping page text with many blockindents.

-- GeorgeClark - 12 May 2008

Thanks George. I filed TWikibug:Item5622 to track this fix.

-- PeterThoeny - 13 May 2008

See also BlockquoteMoveLeftInIE.

-- PeterThoeny - 13 May 2008